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Constructs from conformal geometry are important in low dimensional gravity models, while in higher dimensions the higher curvature interactions of Lovelock gravity are similarly prominent. Considering conformal invariance in the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 David Kastor

In these lectures I review the status of gravity from the point of view of the gauge principle and renormalization, the main tools in the toolbox of theoretical particle physics. In the first lecture I start from the old question "in what…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 R. Percacci

A basic principle of physics is the freedom to locally choose any unit system when describing physical quantities. Its implementation amounts to treating Weyl invariance as a fundamental symmetry of all physical theories. In this thesis, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-03-22 Abrar Shaukat

The implications of restricting the covariance principle within a Gaussian gauge are developed both on a classical and a quantum level. Hence, we investigate the cosmological issues of the obtained Schr\"odinger Quantum Gravity with respect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Cianfrani , G. Montani

We discuss how Moyal deformations of gauge theories, which arise naturally from open string theory, fit into the paradigm of colour-kinematics duality and the double copy of gauge theory to gravity. Along the way we encounter novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-30 Richard J. Szabo

The infinite group of deformed diffeomorphisms of the spacetime continuum is put into the basis of the gauge theory of gravity. This gives rise to some new ways for unification of gravity with other gauge interactions.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 S. E. Samokhvalov , V. S. Vanyashin

We investigate the cosmological evolution for the physical parameters in Weyl integrable gravity in a Friedmann--Lema\^{\i}tre--Robertson--Walker universe with zero spatially curvature. For the matter component, we assume that it is an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-02 Andronikos Paliathanasis

In this Letter, we address the question of whether the conformal invariance can be considered as a global symmetry of a theory of fundamental interactions. To describe Nature, this theory must contain a mechanism of spontaneous breaking of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 Mikhail Shaposhnikov , Anna Tokareva

Gauge theories are studied on a space of functions with the Moyal-Weyl product. The development of these ideas follows the differential geometry of the usual gauge theories, but several changes are forced upon us. The Leibniz rule has to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Julius Wess

A possible Yang-Mills like lagrangian formulation for gravity is explored. The starting point consists on two next assumptions. First, the metric is assumed as a real map from a given gauge group. Second, a gauge invariant lagrangian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rolando Gaitan

A crucial property of Weyl gravity is its conformal invariance. It is shown how this gauge symmetry is exactly reflected by the two constraints in the Hamiltonian framework. Since the spatial 3-metric is one of the configuration variables,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Qian Chen , Yongge Ma

Conformal Weyl Gravity (CWG) predicts galactic rotation curves without invoking dark matter. This makes CWG an interesting candidate theory as an alternative to GR. This removal of the necessity of dark matter arises because the exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-01 Deandra Cutajar , Kristian Zarb Adami

The Unification of Conformal and Fuzzy gravities with Internal Interactions is based on the following two facts. The first is that the tangent group of a curved manifold and the manifold itself do not necessarily have the same dimensions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Gregory Patellis , Danai Roumelioti , Stelios Stefas , George Zoupanos

The conformal gravity is one of the most important models of quantum gravity with higher derivatives. We investigate the role of the Gauss-Bonnet term in this theory. The coincidence limit of the second coefficient of the Schwinger-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. de Berredo-Peixoto , I. L. Shapiro

By defining a regular gauge which is conformal-like and provides instantaneous field propagation, we investigate classical solutions of (2+1)-Gravity coupled to arbitrarily moving point-like particles. We show how to separate field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Bellini , M. Ciafaloni , P. Valtancoli

We present the manifestly covariant canonical operator formalism of a Weyl invariant (or equivalently, a locally scale invariant) gravity whose classical action consists of the well-known conformal gravity and Weyl invariant scalar-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 Ichiro Oda , Misaki Ohta

An alternative interpretation of the conformal transformations of the metric is discussed according to which the latter can be viewed as a mapping among Riemannian and Weyl-integrable spaces. A novel aspect of the conformal transformation's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-29 Israel Quiros , Ricardo Garcia-Salcedo , Jose Edgar Madriz Aguilar , Tonatiuh Matos

Although gauge invariance preserves the values of physical observables, a gauge transformation can introduce important alterations of physical interpretations. To understand this, it is first shown that a gauge transformation is not, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-07 H. R. Reiss

Recently we have constructed the conformal gravity with metric and torsion, finding the gravitational field equations that give the conservation laws and trace condition; in the present paper we apply this theory to the case of ELKO matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-11 Luca Fabbri

In recent papers we have constructed the conformal theory of metric-torsional gravitation, and in this paper we shall include the gauge fields to study the conformal U(1) X SU(2) Standard Model; we will show that the metric-torsional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-11 Luca Fabbri